How do you kill a generator ? (1 Viewer)

[PORKSTER]

I am a patient man I really am I try to get along with everyone its good to have a bit of give and take. But I'm wild camping at the moment and another camper has a Genny running. No this Genny isn't a quality one sounds lime a 2 stroke a poorly 1 at that. I can best describe it as cross between an angry motherinlaw and a skeleton having a w##k in a biscuit tin.

At this moment I am thinking jump out my van and throw it in the sea or maybe go pour some suger in the tank. So any other ideas people ?

 

[Enword]

Chill

 

[Fletton]

Shove a potatoe in exhaust

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[DavidG58]

Its about now you wish you were still 19st

but seriously ask him to turn it off, but maybe ask first if it is on for medical needs

 

[pyro]

Move elsewhere?

Emptying your cassette over it may have the desired effect

 

[Jim]

If you focus on it it will get louder and you'll hear nothing else. Close the windows, have a beer and turn your music up

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[DavidG58]

and when the generator does go off, (presuming you are still awake) turn your music up even louder, then after a bit, give it some more

 

[TheBig1]

a small handful of sand in the tank does a superb job of killing a noisy generator

 

[PORKSTER]

What I can't figure is why he need a Genny ? If it for medical it would be a decent one I would imagine so quieter than this. Sounds like he's running storage heaters and a couple of kettles and the poor ol Genny is struggling.
If I bump into him I will politely ask why on earth he needs a noisy badly running generator.

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[hilldweller]

If I bump into him I will politely ask why on earth he needs a noisy badly running generator.

Such a person may not understand "polite".

He would understand "your generator is on fire, it must have a petrol leak".

 

[Ivory55]

May be he is watching some old moto gp races on tv and the smell of the two stroke generator makes it more real. Haha

 

[PORKSTER]

Porkster of old would have taken action but now porkster is old and more forgiving

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[Debs]

Paul, I'd have to move or is the spot really really really good?

He might not be running anything - he might turn it off as soon as you shift

 

[dave newell]

Pint of piss in the tank will quieten it down........and its very unpleasant fixing it afterwards.

D.

 

[PORKSTER]

May be he is watching some old moto gp races on tv and the smell of the two stroke generator makes it more real. Haha

He certainly has the sound effects but If one of my engines sounded

Paul, I'd have to move or is the spot really really really good?

He might not be running anything - he might turn it off as soon as you shift

Its OK here I use it often I havnt seen this van before. But a few regulars are here infact I think they long term here. He started Genny about hour after we arrived. Maybe the carbon monoxide has gone into his van and he's asleep for good

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[Debs]

He certainly has the sound effects but If one of my engines sounded


Its OK here I use it often I havnt seen this van before. But a few regulars are here infact I think they long term here. He started Genny about hour after we arrived. Maybe the carbon monoxide has gone into his van and he's asleep for good

GGap????

 

[Minxy]

We had this at a motorhome show at Driffield many years ago. A chap in a MH had his generator going on all evening and continued until late ... we were trying to get some sleep which was impossible as the generator was at the back of his MH near to us ... in the end I'd had enough and went over to the MH in question and asked the chap if he could turn it off, he said he would when he'd finished watching Graham ruddy Norton's show ... with half an hour to go!!!! Needless to say I wasn't impressed and suggested he turn it off and watch it without the generator going as it should have been turned off over an hour earlier to comply with the MH show 'rules'. It was turned off within 2 minutes ... whether he watched the end of the show I don't know and didn't care!

On another occasion we were parked up at the parking area near to the causeway leading to Holy Island, lovely spot, then an old MH came up with a couple in it, they proceeded to let their dogs out to potter round on their own and cause chaos ... the ruddy things wouldn't keep away from our camper much to the annoyance of our dogs! Then to make things worse they got out their flaming generator, noisy smelly thing ... they ran it for a couple of hours then put it away and went to bed thank goodness.

It's inconsiderate people like these who give the rest of us a bad name.

 

[PORKSTER]

GGap????

No its all stopped there now its only a few miles from home. Assuming the G was for Goring that is. I am at Eastney ferry near Portsmouth.

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[138go]

We had someone start one up next to us a Whitby. It was running for about 10 minutes before I walked round and banged on the door. Just heating some soup up in the microwave was the reply. I then suggested it was about time to turn it off so we could all have some piece and quiet as it was past 9 o'clock in the evening.

Why go to all the trouble of getting a generator going to heat up soup. Why not just use a pan like normal people.

 

[Debs]

No its all stopped there now its only a few miles from home. Assuming the G was for Goring that is. I am at Eastney ferry near Portsmouth.

You know I'm googling as I type not that I'd wild anywhere......just for the purposes of the NMC

Is the genny still on???

And yes, it was Goring, not that I've been but I have seen some lovely pics

 

[Silver-Fox]

Ive booked for the Moto GP at Silverstone and find it amusing your not allowed a genny given the noise a GP bike makes

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[PORKSTER]

Genny still on

But I'll wake up to this tommorow

 

[GWAYGWAY]

Was it YOU banging on my door?
No seriously it is not fair to have a noisy anything going at night . My genny is gas powered and has extra silencing to really shut it up. But with the two leisure batteries and the 140 watt solar I do not need it unless on site for a long time without EHU. But as I do not go in sites it doesn't really apply, On Dartmoor nobody bothers as it is ten miles to the next place. We like it quiet.

 

[eddie]

In answer to your question:- Go to a camp site where gennies are prohibited

Surely the whole point of wild camping is to be free, no rules, do what you want, that frontier spirit

Which is what the other people surely doing

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[JJ]

EXACTLY as Mr EVB posts above.

The whole point of off-site motorhoming is there are no rules.

I often have to move if other "free spirits" park up near by to me.

Why sometimes they even have the disgusting habit of getting out their tables and chairs, inviting friends over, and start having fun with laughter.

Unbelieveable but true!

I just go. I am not sharing my grumpiness with anyone.

JJ

 

[PORKSTER]

In answer to your question:- Go to a camp site where gennies are prohibited

Surely the whole point of wild camping is to be free, no rules, do what you want, that frontier spirit

Which is what the other people surely doing

Like your thinking so I chucked it in the sea told him you said it was OK

 

[PORKSTER]

Genny went off just before midnight and I had a good nights kip. Here's a photo of the noisy thing so you van avoid if you are after one.

As you can see other than the swan it has no security perhaps the owner wants it stolen. When I woke this AM this was my view

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[eddie]

Like your thinking so I chucked it in the sea told him you said it was OK

lol although my 6kva generator is built into my RV so weighs 11 ton I don't mind paying for sites can't see the point in having a luxury motorhome and scrimping or being disturbed by other people

 

[ianandkath]

so weighs 11 ton

your genny wieghs 11 tons, can i hook up next time your out

 

[eddie]

your genny wieghs 11 tons, can i hook up next time your out

Of course you can

It won't be on as I will be enjoying my 16amp hook up, WiFi, city water and waste

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